SHOCKING ACCIDENT
EXPRESS TRAIN COLLISION EIGHT PASSENGERS KILLED. . SEVERAL CARRIAGES RIPPED OPEN. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 19. Eight were killed in a collision between a passenger train and a goods train at Rotherham. Received Nov. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 19. It appears that the York to Sheffield express, travelling at 45 miles per hour, wa spassing a slow moving goods train when a coal waggon attached to the goods train was derailed, tearing open the sides of the last three of the express’ coaches. Passengers were carried along with the debris for some distance before the express came to a halt. It transpires that some passengers, hearing a teriffic crash; put their heads out of the windows and were instantly killed. The sidps of three carriages were completely ripped out, and the scene was one of the utmost confusion for some minutes, but the passengers from the front portion of the train speedily extricated the dead and injured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 11
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